Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-27
THE EDITOR AND HIS son.
Bill Nye Relates Mournfui Incl
dent in Journalistic Life.
From the Mean York WJrld.

l nave Deen thlnklng Tor several weeks
over what a great contributor to the
World recently said about turning night
into day and day into night. The more
think about it the more l think he is
right. Sitting up nights until away along
into the shank OF the evening in order 10
battle ones immortal soul in champagne
and tell anecdotes and make speeches and
clutch at the table cloth and drink n glass
OF oil and vinegar that some one has sub
sttuted for your own, and then 20 home
and sprain your ankle trying to mount
aklttish bed, is injurious and pernlciOus
and have about decided that when | get
TO be an old man | am going TO do differ
entity.
Your contributor is right when he says
that this kind of work wears out it's gen.
Grafton and compels us to bring In gem
Grafton of farmers sons and village boys
to replace it. Then the farmers sons and
village boys do the same thing and ap-
parently enjoy it.
But it Is not alone the late dinner and
the recOil OF Mr.. Mumm's celebrated in
iernal machine that is wearing out
large army of our brightest and best met.
1t is wearing aud destructive on
the tissues, of course, to sit through the
majority OF the night eating sweet cake
and trying TO laugn at anecdotes that you
nave trequestly heard before; but people
who do This do IL from necessity; they
cannot ev6de it. But if we call this dam
aging and deplore IT in them, what shall
we say OF those men who do it voluu-
tarlly? What shall we say of the news
paper man who sleeps all the forenoon
in order that he may dawdle about the
Office of a morning paper all night, think
Ing thoughts and penclling them off for
the public, or paving around over wad
of manifold" and writing startling heads
to duh kilograms half the night, while his
wife, who has taken time by the forelOck
and done her work during daylight, is in
bed.
know that there are men who have
been connected with journalism tor years,
who maintain t6at 1t is not habit, but
that with them IL s absolutely necessary.
For this reason | consulted Mr.. James
Mi2glesQn, of Asheville, who edits the
Daily Jimplecute, morning paper of
this place, and learned from him that it is
not necessary to BIT up nights in order TO
run morning paper.
So the wives and mothers of morning
journalists and printers OF New York
should not longer be deceived by this
| time-hOnored fraud upon their trusting
natures.
Mr.. Miggleson says that a rafting good
morning paper can DO worked off the
press by supper time, and the evening re-
And yet l know pale, studious news
paper man, with silver in his hair, a mau
ia whose mouth butter would scarcely
melt, who has, for twenty years and
more, bamboozled his trusting wife and
| grOwn-up son with this transparent fraud.
He told me only a short time ago, with
genuine pathos, that the first time he had
| se0n his own son by daylight was last
| fall. He said that bis son came of age
last October, and through the courtesy OF
mutual friend (the young mans
mother) he had the pleasure of meeting
| him on election day and forming an ac-
| quaintance which he says may yet ripen
into a strong friendship.
| have another acquaintance who as
| sists 10 editing morning paper, but he
| does not believe in allowing MS children
to utterly forget him. He does not want
his boys to think they are orphans just
| because he is not always at home. He is
| a man OF very strong will and a strict
| disciplinarian. So he gets a holiday ev-
| cry two weeks in order to go home and do
| up his Furnishing.
One time he found that his eldest or
| Oldest sOn-I do not know which, because
am away from home without my libr a.
| ry-had violated the rules OF the house in
| a sad manner.
AS near as | am able to come at the
| facts, the boy had taken quart of corn
| and sewed a long thread through each
| kernel, showing great patience and per-
severance in SO doing. He had then tied
| the ends OF the threads all together into
one knot and scattered the corn where a
large flock Of geese had been in thahabit
OF ass0ciating and pooling for mutual
profit and Improvement.
A man who came along that way about
| dusk said he saw about thirty geese
standing around IN circle looking re-
proachtully at each other and trying to
agree on some method by which they
| could go all home together without turn
! ing part OF their crowd wrong side out,
while behind a high board fence there
was boy who seemed to be enjoying
| himself in a small way.
| The incident was reported to the boys
| father, who came home and placed his
son under a large dry goods box in the
| cellar, after which he piled three or four
hundred pounds of coal on top OF the in
| verted box. He then made a few re-
marks tor the boys good, which were
followed by the smothered remark:
| "Ratsl' from the inside OF the box. After
ordering that the box should not be dis
turbed till his return, my friend put on
his coat and went back TO his work.
This was just as the returns began to
return in the autumn of "a. Ny friend
| did not 90 home for two weeks, and forgot
/
| his punishment for the fortnight.
| When tine truth flashed over him be was
| filed with the keenest remorse, and went
| home as soon as he had sent in the last
proof, but when he went down the cellar
he found the box empty and the following
note written on 1T with a pencil:
Dear Paw do not weap tor me / have
went away from my happy home WHARF
eas onct 50 gay and free do Not Gssassa-
nate nav becuz she Pride up the box
with a stick Of cord-wood yesterday and
fed Me she left the box So / could Bust
Atm am gone. Far Far Away do not weap
| for me 1t is better for me and you to be
Apart. ennyhOw II is better for Ne 10 be
apart like being Apart a Good deal bet
| ter think i will take a ham and gar OF
| Preserves OF which 1 am pashionately
fond but will Renumerate you some Day
| as heaven is my jug 80 No mnar at Pres
ent from your proddigle Son Henry
ASheUttLe, N. c., Udrch <. BILL NYE.
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